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Re:The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:11PM (#17250117)
"And this kind of pedantry feels like a tactic."

Astonishing that this was the response to a comment which offered-up le mot juste.

Re:Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @01:53PM (#17022986)
The whole point of the article is that not everybody is able to use javascript, for a variety of reasons, and it makes perfect sense for apps to provide as close to equivalent functionality as is practicable.
Re:The Fall of Eclipse (2016) on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:21AM (#16941426)
For PHPers and lovers of Free Software, Eclipse and PHP Developer Tools (PDT) are very fine tools. Long live Eclipse!
Re:500M of “Have I been Pwned” hashes broken on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @09:12AM (#16801060)
Someone should add a "Has my hashed password been broken?" and an opt-in notification when one's password is eventually revealed.

Last person standing gets a prize.

Re:The House That Spied on Me on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:46AM (#16347475)
Remove ghostery and install privacy badger instead https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Re:Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s on Monday November 13, 2017 @08:44AM (#15686461)
Same. And with nearly thirteen thousand lines in the source of the page you'd think the text would be there too.

edit: oh, there it is, 25 lines beginning at line 8201.

Re:I hate telephones on Saturday November 11, 2017 @03:18PM (#15677947)
People should send calling cards ("Hi, it's so-and-so, wish to call on you at your convenience") and wait for a response. Same for telephones (send an email/text message first).
Re:This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:46PM (#15386659)
Something approaching Utopia arises on island owned by its residents.
Re:GitHub Debug on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:09PM (#15287849)
I wonder if Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) could help.

https://ooni.torproject.org/

Re:Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:04PM (#15242659)
> ... and avoid the negative psychological behaviors which disconnected individuals typically exhibit.

Please explain what you mean by "disconnected individuals" and what are the behaviours. Genuinely interested.

"US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks" http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-isis-toyota...
Re:Systemd-resolved does not keep the order of the DNS servers on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:45PM (#15231485)
The relevant option to change is "dns-servers" at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/meson_options...
Re:Systemd-resolved does not keep the order of the DNS servers on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:19PM (#15230926)
> The "Switching to fallback DNS server 8.8.8.8." message indicates that you have no DNS servers configured at all, in which case resolved will use compiled-in fallback servers because it tries hard to just work also if you have a locally misconfigured system

It's good to have the knowledge that Google servers are compiled-in to resolved.

Re:Bell Pottinger “incited racial hatred” in South Africa on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:16AM (#15181985)
The article reveals a few "dark arts" of the PR firm:-

- Twitterbots to "amplify the message"

- "manipulate Google results to 'drown out' negative coverage of human rights violations"

- get Members of Parliament "known to be critical of investigative programmes could be used to attack journalists over minor reporting errors"

- "a team dealing with negative Wikipedia coverage of clients"

and this bit:-

> In 2016 the Bureau revealed a secret $500 million propaganda operation run by Bell Pottinger in Iraq for the Pentagon after the invasion in 2003. It involved making videos which would look like they had been produced by local Iraqi TV stations to spin the news, and recutting insurgent videos with code to track anyone who watched them. When the Bureau revealed this Lord Bell told the Sunday Times that "it was a covert military operation" for the CIA, the Pentagon and the National Security Council and "we were very proud of it".

Re:New lubricated mussel-proof coating on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:06PM (#15179125)
Indeed, copper sheathing [0] may have been used by the ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians, but the first authenticated use seems to have been in 1758 [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_sheathing

[1]: https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/bitstream/handle/1912/19... (pdf)

Re:Tips on using vim effectively on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:50AM (#15173737)
'Tis fair use to be a mockin' the article, me hearty.
Re:Tips on using vim effectively on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:14AM (#15173579)
tl;dr

Use ghjk to move the cursor.

To quit, type :q and press Return.

If you don’t want to save your changes, you can use :q! instead.

Re:Clean Code concepts adapted for PHP on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:48AM (#15173479)
A nice thing about this being open and editable is that the original author has obviously learnt quite a bit since their initial commit.

How to do for and foreach loops for example: https://github.com/jupeter/clean-code-php/commit/08d73d655ef...

Re:Binary data visualization on Monday September 04, 2017 @10:22AM (#15168371)
Perhaps they're getting it mixed-up with Carthusian.
Re:Facebook Has Mapped the Entire Human Population of Earth on Monday September 04, 2017 @05:02AM (#15166773)
> Correction: A Facebook spokesperson clarified that the company has mapped population densities in 23 countries

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